That sounds fine to me. Maybe a note to read the FAQ?
Don't I get a cookie?
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esse - Jul 09, 2003 3:38:12 am PDT #4288 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Fred Pete - Jul 09, 2003 3:46:40 am PDT #4289 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
A polite stompy note, to avoid scaring her off.
Jim - Jul 09, 2003 4:45:48 am PDT #4290 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
What everyone said. "Thanks, but you should post in..." Maybe add "nice tag", too.
Jon B. - Jul 09, 2003 4:54:50 am PDT #4291 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Ughh. I'm having a brainfreeze on coming across as polite rather than snooty. Can someone else make the appropriate post?
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2003 5:10:53 am PDT #4292 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does there really need to be a post? I feel that given her e-mail address is concealed (because a gentle admin email would have been my first suggestion), we can just let it go.
If it turns out that other people think it's a good idea, then we can stomp community wide.
edit: BBaBB? How'd I get here?
Angus G - Jul 09, 2003 5:12:21 am PDT #4293 of 10000
Roguish Laird
I honestly don't think there needs to be a post.
Jon B. - Jul 09, 2003 5:18:28 am PDT #4294 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
edit: BBaBB? How'd I get here?
Shoulda been in Bureaucracy. I wasn't quite awake yet.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2003 5:23:26 am PDT #4295 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If it turns out that other people think it's a good idea, then we can stomp community wide.
Okay, what I meant by this sentence, and completely failed to say, type, is that if the trend of misposting there catches on, we should nudge the community.
Otherwise I am in favour of no action.
Huh. I guess I'm still here.
Cindy - Jul 09, 2003 6:25:28 am PDT #4296 of 10000
Nobody
How about a note, edited into the post (letting her own text stay), something like:
Hi and welcome. It's nice to have you here. For future reference, this thread is for (insert slug summary here). If you'd been here a while, we'd have deleted your post, but we didn't want to scare you off. In fact, we've had this big, long, goofy, circular conversation (if circles can be long) about how to let you know all this, without making you feel like you were being run out of town. Which you're not. Because that's what we do ('that's what we do' refers to us having goofy, circular conversations, not running you out of town - because we don't do that).
So again, hi and welcome. Take your shoes off. Make yourself at home. Acquaint yourself with our FAQ and come on in the pool. The water's fine.
...
And yeah, this belongs in bureau, but the rest of y'all are lost, so I'm responding here. Here's why I think we should say something. We should say something, because we delete regular posters' misposted-in-press-posts, all the time. People have just complained about regulars posting celeb death mentions in press. I don't get the double standard, and I do believe although we want to welcome newbies, we want to welcome them to our culture, a part of which, is respecting the Press thread purpose.
Sean K - Jul 09, 2003 6:28:54 am PDT #4297 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Not to continue the trend of talking about this here instead of B'cracy, but I agree with ita. If it was a regular poster, I would say delete it. If started to become a serious problem, I'd say delete it. But for the nice new person who just found us, I think we can just leave it alone.